January 23th, 2006

PRESS RELEASE

Clifton Mining Company Inc. (OTC : CFTN)

FOR RELEASE B January 23, 2006

Kiewit Gold Zone and Porphyry Target Drilling Resumes

Clifton Mining Company announces that its joint venture partner has resumed the reverse circulation drilling on the Kiewit Project after a short break over the Holiday Season. Five holes have so far been completed, and this drilling will continue through January. Intentions are to convert to core drilling scheduled to start mid-February.

The overall twelve hole program will test strike extensions of the Kiewit Gold Zone and also the flanking porphyry target discovered by Clifton earlier in the year. Initial holes over the porphyry target are being drilled for geological reasons to help better target subsequent drilling over this one mile diameter anomaly.

Three of the holes completed so far were drilled to test northerly and southerly projected extensions of the Kiewit gold zone. Two of these holes were drilled 100m apart, approximately 600m to the south of the Kiewit Historic Gold Zone, to test an apparently isolated exposure of gold bearing quartz stockworks.  Both holes intersected stockworks sections indicating that the surface exposure extends at least 150m-200m downdip. The third hole, drilled 700m to the north of the Zone to test its northerly extension, was necessarily terminated at 570ft in bad ground and will be deepened by core drilling in February.  This hole reached granodiorite below limestone cap-rock and also encountered abundant fine sulfides in a siliceous section at the base of the sedimentary unit.

One hole, drilled to test part of the porphyry target area, was terminated in bad ground at 720ft in siliceous material. This hole has not yet reached its target and will be deepened with core drilling in February.

Of the three holes planned to test the Rainbow Hill Area, one hole has been completed to date. This area marks the northern extremity of the Gold Zone exposures and its testing was curtailed during 2005 by logistical difficulties.  The completed hole intersected thick sections of quartz and other stockworks material.

The previous work in the area identified a series of gossan exposures and trenches located to the west of Rainbow Hill. Some of the samples from these exposures reported anomalous gold and copper (up to 1.8g/t gold up to 1.1% copper).  Intentions are to drill test these areas.  Assays are pending from all of the drilling completed to date, and will be announced once they are received.

Clifton trades on the U.S. OTC: (CFTN).  For additional information, contact Dr. Ken Friedman, President at 303-642-0659, Keith Moeller Vice President at 801-756-1414 or see our website at www.cliftonmining.com

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